Month: November 2016

The last post was about descriptions of alienation in Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience. Several of the contributors also write about the ethics of advocating for mixed-race identity. The most thought-provoking essay about that is the one at the end, which I wanted to discuss in its own post: Jason D. Hill’s Who is…

Philosophy was the first academic thing I got really into. For most of high school, I was sure I wanted to get a BA in philosophy and then…I guess I’d have to decide between law school and academia. That made my parents anxious, but luckily I came to my senses in the end and went…

The Guardian invited 4 women who voted for Trump and consider themselves feminists to explain their sins. It should go without saying that every single person that voted for Donald Trump is racist, and that’s why they supported him. We can learn from their excuses, though. Laura, a Floridian government worker in her 20s, speaks…

The day after the election, on Reddit’s /r/psychotherapy board, someone posted a question about handling the election when it comes up in sessions. TimeandPsychology, who appears to be a 26-year-old male social worker, gave the following response: I took this as an opportunity to talk with my clients about acceptance, trust, and only worrying about…

Now that Trump is set to make America great again, that being a return to the 1950s, we need to psychologically prepare ourselves. It’s the right time to revisit The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster, Norman Mailer’s 1957 essay. It resonates. Whether the hipster’s desire for absolute sexual freedom contains any genuinely radical…

I’m always faced with a sort of tetralemma about my race. Black, white, both, or neither? Yes. This Hotep guy understands that “it depends” is the best answer. See 5:00 to 6:30. My loyalty is suspect, because my father lacked the “common decency” not to create my racially-ambiguous self. Coons come in all shades, but…